John shellaberger



JOI-IY SHELLABERGrER', 0F SHANES GROSSINGS, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 78,694, dated June 9, 1868.

IMPROVED TILE-CUTTING IiIAGHINE.v

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'ro ALL WHoM 1T MAY'OONCERN:

Be it known that I, JoIINSHELLAnEnGI-m, of Shanes Crossings, Mercercounty, State of Ohio, have invented n, certain newv and useful Machinefor Cutting'Drain-Tile; and I hereby declare the followingto be a. full,clear,

and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part oi" this spec iiication.

My invention consists of' a machine or'tool for ,cutting cley-tube, asit comes from an ordinary drain-tile machine, into suitableiengtns, thecutters being stretched wires, which are confined to acircular pathacross: the tube, so as to shape one end of each length of convex forni,und the opposite end concave, this end-shaping'.

boing adapted to prevent vertical displacement when 4the tiles are laidend toend, convex into concave, in the ground. Provision is also made inthis-machine whereby tile can be cut in a direct line across the tube,ii' desired.

i In the accompanying drawings- Figure l is a perspective view of mytile-cutter. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section. Figure 3 is across-section, exhibiting 'the device for cutting the tile squareacross.

. The frame A. may be supposed to represent the ordinery truckle-roilervrorhs of a drain-tileiway. The frame B, Vwhich rests on frame 3A, hasjournalled'within it, "at a a and b b', the cutting-wire carriers Dthese carriers being bent, as shown, to form the handles tti-operatethem, and enable the cutting-Wires E F to bestretched across thecarriers at a suiicient distance from the *Afnlcra to describethe-required degree of curve to the cuttings. The action of the carriersand cutting-Wires is shown in tig. 2, pressu'relupon the handles citiofthe carriers being,r all that is needed to cut the tile inthe mannershown.

'lh'e -frame B, carrying the cutting-wires, is hinged tothe-frame A. ate, so that the frame and Wires can be swung up bodily in a plane atright angles to the line of tube tol be out, the cutting-wires beingstretched in the same plane. 'By elevating and depressing the frame on'thehingese cuts daube made,across the tube, if desired, (see fig. 3.)When the machine is, used. forcurved shaping, as in fig. 2, the wiressre'acro'ss the plane of `motion, and the cutis therefore curved.

'Iclainn as new, and of'nhyinvention- 1. The pivotcd cutters C E D F,constructed and operatlng substantially as and for the purposedescribed. 2. The hinged frame B, in cbrnbination with the cutters C'D EF, for the purpose of adapting them to cut in -a vertical plane,substantially in the manner and for the purpose specied.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

' JOHN SEELLABERGER.

Witnesses: i 4WM. CLAY,

Gr.' H. KNIGHT.

